This thematic section of Nations and Nationalism starts from a question of substantive political importance: How does institutional change - in particular reforms towards ethno-national equality and the opening of borders ...
This paper examines the impact of cross-border cooperation on everyday life in an era of devolution since 1999. The argument is made that the island of Ireland has moved from the process of fracture and friction that Conor ...
Mitchell, Claire(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
Reducing religion to theological fundamentalism has stifled the debate about its political significance in Northern Ireland. This paper develops an integrated theoretical conception of religion as the key to illuminating ...
Stevenson, Clifford(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
The sectarian geography of Northern Ireland, whereby the majority of the population
live in areas predominated by one religion or the other, is typically assumed to
straightforwardly reflect the territorial identities ...
This article uses Donald Horowitz’s theory of ethnic party competition in order to understand the development of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) during the first decade of its existence. The ...
National identity is symbolically complex configuration, with shifts of emphasis and reprioritisations of content negotiated in contexts of power. This paper shows how they occur in one post conflict situation – Northern ...